Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charges and conclusions." The next day Beame again struck out at the SEC, but added the banks to his hit list. "For more than a year," he said, "the SEC withheld and covered up the fact that the banks secretly dumped city securities from their own portfolios on the market. If verified, the banks' actions constitute a fraud against the city and its people...
...these investors, and others like them, be lured back into the market? Perhaps, but the process will take years. Doubtless, stock prices will have their upswings in forthcoming years, and those that take the Dow average above the magic 1000 mark may stir some temporary excitement. But the essential condition for a sustained bull market is a long and strong economic advance, during which inflation simmers down well below its present rate of roughly 6%. How to produce that ideal combination is the central unresolved question of modern economics...
...mood of stock-market professionals, those money managers for brokerage houses and investment firms who handle billions of other people's assets, is so pessimistic these days that they are talking like mourners at a wake. Their business is in turmoil and trouble: the profits and numbers of brokerage firms are both falling, and brokers are tense about the effect of changes that the Securities and Exchange Commission intends to force concerning the rules they operate under...
...corporate activity that the stock market's sag has not discouraged is the big takeover. Quite the contrary: partly because share prices are low, the number of multimillion-dollar mergers is rising. W.T. Grimm, a Chicago firm of merger consultants, counts a somewhat lower total number of mergers and acquisitions so far in 1977 than a year ago, but in the first six months of this year it found 20 cases in which a company proposed to pay $100 million or more for control of another firm, as compared with twelve bids of that size in the same...
...than to build." Their own companies are flush with cash, and as they look around for expansion possibilities, they find numerous companies not much smaller than their own selling for less than asset value per share-so that they can afford to make an offer well above market price and still pick up a company relatively inexpensively...